Orienteering at the 2019 Military World Games

Orienteering at the 2019 Military World Games was held in Wuhan, China from 19 to 23 October 2019.[1]

Orienteering
at the 2019 Military World Games
Dates19–23 October

Medal summary

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual middle distance
 Matthias Kyburz
 Switzerland		 Florian Howald
 Switzerland		 Emanuel Egger
 Switzerland
Individual long distance race
 Dmitrii Tcvetkov
 Russia		 Frederic Tranchand
 France		 Ionuț Zincă
 Romania
Relay
  Switzerland  Russia  France
Team
  Switzerland  Russia  Poland

Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual middle distance
 Anastasiia Rudnaia
 Russia		 Iuliia Novikova
 Russia		 Aleksandra Hornik
 Poland
Individual long distance
 Anastasiia Rudnaia
 Russia		 Ursula Kadan
 Austria		 Elena Roos
 Switzerland
Relay
  Russia  Poland  France
Team
  Russia  Poland  France

Medal table

Source

Controversy

Chinese orienteering teams comprising both men and women counterparts were disqualified and their results were also rejected by the event organizers citing cheating offenses on the athletes for using illegal secret paths and markings with the assistance of spectators to claim medals in the individual middle distance events. China originally claimed a gold and a silver medal in women's category as well as a silver in men's category prior to the disqualification.[2] The issue was later notified by the International Orienteering Federation and announced officially that the medals won't be counted as part of the multi-sport event and clarified on the disqualification of the Chinese athletes.

A common protest was also held by the competitors from Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland and Austria accusing the Chinese team for gaining major unfair advantage in the competition.

References
  1. "足球". wuhan2019mwg.com (in Chinese). 2019-10-25.
  2. "Chinese orienteering team disqualified for cheating at Military World Games". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
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